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Going from Student to Company Worker: New-Employee Orientations of Japanese CompaniesA Lecture by Professor Haruko Minegishi Cook, University of Hawai'iHow are students socialized to be company workers in Japanese society? From a language socialization perspective, Dr. Cook will discuss the ways in which new employees in Japanese companies are socialized through orientation sessions into acquiring their new identity of “shakai-jin,” or, in other words, how to become “mature, contributing adults” in “society.” Language socialization investigates how novices learn to become competent members in a social group by participating in routines of culturally organized activities. Adult novices are socialized into the cultural values and practices of the business and professional community within their workplace. In Japan, getting a full-time job after completing formal education is a major transition in life. To prepare for this, companies offer in-house orientations or send their new employees to courses offered by a business manner training company, where they place more emphasis on polite behavior and language than technical aspects of the new job. Dr. Cook will discuss these interactions between trainers and new employees in these orientations and she will show how new employees in Japan leave their student identities behind to become shakaijin in the workplace.
Thursday, October 17, 2024 | 5:30 PM
Smith Memorial Student Union
Room 294
Free & Open to the Public
Please Use Main Entrance on SW Broadway
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Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland,OR,United States
